great great directors we have these wonderful two directors two time oscar award winning directors peabody award winning directors wonderful actors amanda's i'faith plays linda lovelace peter scar scar plays the kind of villain is always a friend come husband just wonderful i mean it is just such an. amazing opportunity to be in a great movie with great people but you're a glamorous star you would be. you're golden globes you're great on the on the no no larry stop you drop dead gorgeous and you knew that of miss film no one's going to say boy i want her to write. like that i have women who love about heiresses would not have to take a bit well but you know i think the thing to do is to take good parts with good people i mean it's not a vanity contest it's the opportunity to play good parts and you see pictures of the mother did you yes we did a lot of research i mean now you can go on the internet and find anything really so be careful larry. there she was like that but she was like that as she was i mean we didn't try to impersonate her we really just tried to capture the essence of the charac

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